about the author | war on wall

Kai Wiedenhöfer, born in Germany in 1966, received a MA in photography and editorial design from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen and studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria. Since 1989 the focus of his work is mainly the Middle East. He has received numerous awards, as the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Alexia Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding, World Press Photo Awards, the Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. He has published four books with Steidl “Perfect Peace“ (2002) , “Wall“ (2007) and “The Book of Destruction“ (2010) which was exhibited as a solo exhibition in the Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2013 his fourth volume “CONFRONTIER “ about separation walls worldwide was published by Steidl. The photographs were exhibited in the show WALLONWALL on 364m (or 1200sqm) of the Berlin Wall. In the summer ion 2016 this show has been succeeded by WARonWALL about the war in Syria which is accompanied by the volume “Syrian Collateral“.